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A Cook County jury tonight convicted a man in the slaying of a high school basketball player during a melee outside a movie theater on Chicago's Southwest Side more than six years ago. Eddie Fenton, 27, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the April 2006 shooting death of 17-year-old Willie Williams III, a star on the Robeson High School basketball team and member of the Jesse White Tumblers. The jury deliberated for about three hours after a four-day trial, according to a court clerk in Judge Kenneth Wadas' courtroom. Prosecutors said the shooting occurred in the parking lot of the Ford City shopping center after a late showing of the movie...

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